Design Lab: Three Studios | Denver Art Museum

Experience unique offerings from Colorado’s ever-growing design community this summer in Design Lab: Three Studios featuring DoubleButter, MATTER, and tres birds workshop. Utilizing inventive approaches to architecture and design, the installations in this exhibition challenge the rules of traditional design practices and illuminate the process of constructing an object, a space, or the components of information. Recognized for their pursuit of alternative design strategies, DoubleButter, MATTER, and tres birds workshop present three distinct installations that provide a glimpse into the design process, providing insight into how concepts evolve from initial spark to final form.

On view through September 2, 2012.

The office walls of tres birds workshop, founded by architect Mike Moore, showcase environmentally friendly building materials like these plastic bottles used as an alternative medium for insulating buildings. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Mike Moore, front left, and the staff at tres birds workshop discuss upcoming projects around a table made from wood previously used as a bowling lane. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Furniture design and manufacturing studio DoubleButter’s signature brand is applied to each original piece. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

Dexter Thornton, seated, and David Larabee, standing, founded the furniture design and manufacturing company DoubleButter in 2006. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

MATTER founder Rick Griffith shows off a few of the many wood type forms used at the graphic design studio. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.

MATTER founder Rick Griffith uses both contemporary and modern printing techniques.

Design Lab: Three Studios is organized by the Denver Art Museum. The exhibition is funded by Design Council of the Denver Art Museum, the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), and the donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign.